In 1930, the union of American singers spent the equivalent of $10m on a campaign to stop people from listening to recorded music and watching movies with sound. 1/

This is instantly iconic

anyone wanna go Christmas caroling? we're singing the debut studio album Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park in its entirety.

Very, very good newyorker.com/news/daily-com…

Broke up with the USSR because it was a total red flag 🚩

I'm not sure I've ever read a better first paragraph in an economics paper in my life (van Oldeniel--Snyder--Adriaan Soetevent 🇺🇦 via NBER, QED)

“Marxism is so played out, it’s so old. I mean look at your mayor.”

“Heck no that area is full of endangered plants.” LAFD captain when asked if he was sending in bulldozers to suppress the smolder that would become the Palisades fire.

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"Education is 200 years behind medicine" Anna Stokke youtube.com/shorts/sNOQYUm…

You’re talking registered Democrats who voted for Kamala fighting with people who are registered Democrats but stayed home because they thought Trump would be better for Gazans than Harris.

"Watch What You Say or ‘Two Tier Keir’ Might Put You Away" These are incredible headlines to describe a country that was once at the forefront of political liberty. Unbelievably depressing wsj.com/opinion/free-e… via The Wall Street Journal

Hundreds of professors punished is not “just about social opprobrium”! It was rife with first amendment violations and contractual violations that people to this day like to pretend didn't even happen or didn't really matter! The fact that some of these same people claim to

Someone put MY COUSIN VINNY dialogue over Skeletor and Evil-Lyn and its way too perfect

California politicians have shot themselves in the foot. Again. Thiel Capital announced a Miami office today. Sacks opened Austin operations today. Both on December 31, 2025. The California billionaire tax uses January 1, 2026 as the residency cutoff. They’re not even being

Good start